LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO 
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File Contributed for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Name: K. Stevens
Email: 67buick@adelphia.net
Date: April 19, 2004
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History of Lawrence Co., Ohio by Hardesty (1882)

WILL B. TOMLINSON –- of the firm of Tomlinson & Wilson, proprietors of the Ironton 
Busy Bee, was born in Ripley, Ohio, March 23, 1847.  He has been in the business of 
journalism since the age of sixteen, when, by the murder of his father, he was forced to 
leave school and help support his widowed mother and orphaned sister.  He became 
proprietor of the Ripley Bee in 1875.  In the spring of 1880 he removed the office to 
Ironton, where he began the publication of the Ironton Busy Bee.  In the fall of that year 
Mr. G. W. Wilson became associated with him as a partner.  The remarkable success of this 
paper under adverse circumstances, is a matter of great credit to the editorial and business 
management of the firm.